Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform"

It will now be interesting to consider some of the more striking effects which will be produced on our now over-crowded cities by the opening-up in new districts of such a vast...

Before entering upon the question which presented itself at the conclusion of the last chapter--that of endeavouring to ascertain whether the estimated net available income of G...

“Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and re-planted for too long a series of generations in the same worn-out soil. My children have had oth...

In the last chapter, I pointed out the great differences of principle between the project placed before the reader of this work and some of those schemes of social reform which,...

“How can a man learn to know himself? By reflection never--only by action. In the measure that thou seekest to do thy duty shalt thou know what is in thee. But what is thy duty?...

In the last chapter we saw that no line could be sharply drawn between municipal and individual enterprise, so that one could definitely say of one or the other, “Hitherto shalt...

Amongst the essential differences between Garden City and other municipalities, one of the chief is its method of raising its revenue. Its entire revenue is derived from rents;...

To make this chapter interesting to the general reader would be difficult, perhaps impossible; but if carefully studied, it will, I think, be found to abundantly establish one o...

There will be found in every progressive community societies and organisations which represent a far higher level of public spirit and enterprise than that possessed or displaye...

“Thorough sanitary and remedial action in the houses that we have; and then the building of more, strongly, beautifully, and in groups of limited extent, kept in proportion to t...

Having now, in a concrete rather than an abstract form, stated the objects and purposes of our scheme, it may be well to deal, though somewhat briefly, with an objection which m...

I have in the 4th and 5th chapters dealt with the fund at the disposal of the Board of Management, and have endeavoured to show, and I believe with success, that the rate-rents...

“Whatever reforms be introduced into the dwellings of the London poor, it will still remain true that the whole area of London is insufficient to supply its population with fres...